How to Install Anaconda on Linux Mint 19

Install Anaconda on Linux Mint 19

Anaconda is the opensource package manager and distribution of Python and R Programming language. Anaconda is mainly designed for Data Science and Machine Learning and used for large-scale data processing, predictive analysis, and scientific computing. It offers over 1400 data packages in the free and paid form. It also ships with conda command-line utility. This tutorial outlines how to install Anaconda on Linux Mint 19.

Welcome to Anaconda3 2019.03
In order to continue the installation process, please review the license
agreement.
Please, press ENTER to continue

Now press ENTER to continue. Again press ENTER to scroll through the license of Anaconda. At last, you will be asked to accept the license terms.

Do you approve the license terms? [yes|no]

Type yes to continue. Then you will be asked to choose the installation directory.

Anaconda3 will now be installed into this location:
/home/linux4one/anaconda3
- Press ENTER to confirm the location
- Press CTRL-C to abort the installation
- Or specify a different location below

You can press ENTER to accept the default location or you specify another location.

After completing installation following output will be displayed:

Installation finished.
Do you wish the installer to prepend the Anaconda3 install location
to PATH in your /home/linu4one/.bashrc ? [yes|no]

You want to use command line utility conda then press ENTER after this you will get output like below:

Appending source /home/linux4one/anaconda3/bin/activate to /home/linux4one/.bashrc
A backup will be made to: /home/linux4one/.bashrc-anaconda3.bak
For this change to become active, you have to open a new terminal.
Thank you for installing Anaconda3!

You will be also asked to install VSCode Editor (Visual Studio Code). Now decide whether to install or not by typing yes or no.

Anaconda is partnered with Microsoft! Microsoft VSCode is a streamlined
code editor with support for development operations like debugging, task
running and version control.
To install Visual Studio Code, you will need:
- Administrator Privileges
- Internet connectivity
Visual Studio Code License: https://code.visualstudio.com/license
Do you wish to proceed with the installation of Microsoft VSCode? [yes|no]